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Tom Petty greeted Gary Clark Jr. with a smile and a hug in the hallway backstage at the Frank Erwin Center as the young Texas bluesman made his way to the stage to open the show.

The pair had met in February in Los Angeles when Gary and his band played a blistering cover of “Good Enough” at the MusiCares event honoring Tom as their Person of the Year. Nearly two months later, everyone in the Heartbreakers camp was still buzzing about the performance.

“Wanna come up and play it with us tonight?” Tom asked Gary as Mike Campbell and

Torrential rains, high winds, tornadoes and flooding couldn’t stop Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers from their triumphant return to the 2017 edition of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, their second appearance at JazzFest in the band’s storied 40-year career.

“Swingin’,” off 1999’s Echo, made its tour debut in New Orleans, sandwiched in between killer takes on “Mary Jane’s Last Dance” and “You Don’t Know How It Feels.”

“Well, we’re in New Orleans at the JazzFest,” Tom said after the band wound down “Free Fallin’,” “and

The old saying goes that everything’s bigger in Texas, and looking out over the sold-out crowd of 16,000-plus cheering fans at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion, you’d have to say they’re right.

Amped up by the biggest crowd yet of the 40th Anniversary tour, Tom and the band charged into “Rockin’ Around With You” to open the show and didn’t step off the gas all night. “Forgotten Man” was an early highlight, and “Crawling Back to You” made its debut on this tour, joining “Wildflowers” and “It’s Good to Be King” for a mini

The 40th Anniversary Tour is in full swing five shows into the first leg, and Tom and the guys are really hitting their stride. So are English duo Charley and Hattie Webb, aka The Webb Sisters, who have joined this tour on background vocals.

They sound wonderful backing up the guys on “Mary Jane’s Last Dance,” “Don’t Come Around Here No More,” and “Runnin’ Down A Dream,” but nowhere are they more prominently felt than on “Free Fallin’,” where Charley & Hattie’s gorgeous background vocals during the choruses floating dreamily behind Tom’s lead. It’s a magical moment in the show.

Tom Petty raised his hands above his head, shaking them like a preacher at a tent revival. Suddenly, the arena’s overhead white lights snapped on to reveal a standing-room-only crowd at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena. Couples, hippies, families, hipsters, teens, and baby boomers – everyone was screaming at the top of their lungs, their hands waving in the air.

Tom was absolutely right. The mojo was in the air in Nashville Tuesday night.

Coming in hot off a great night in Dallas on Saturday,, Tom and the band came to Little Rock on Sunday with one goal in mind.

“We’re bringing the rock to Little Rock!” Tom said to rapturous applause from the 13,000-plus at Verizon Arena. And with that, the band launched into “I Should Have Known It,” the blues rocker off the Mojo album driven by Steve Ferrone’s powerful drumming and a crunchy guitar riff from Mike Campbell.

“Hope you paid the babysitter well, ‘cause it’s gonna be a long night!”

Tom Petty smiled widely as the capacity-crowd at American Airlines Arena roared in response. Just as the cheers were beginning to die down, Mike Campbell hit the signature opening guitar lick of “I Won’t Back Down,” and the 14,000-plus in attendance in Dallas screamed in unison.

Joe Walsh and company once again opened the festivities on the second night of the 40th Anniversary Tour, highlighted by a moving cover of The Eagles’ “Take It To The Limit” dedicated to Walsh’s

Oklahoma City got its first taste ofTom Petty and The Heartbreakers on August 1, 1978 when the band played the Music Hall on the You’re Gonna Get It! tour.

Thirty-nine years later, Tom and the guys returned to OKC on Thursday for the opening night of their 40th Anniversary Tour.

The excitement was palpable inside the Chesapeake Energy Arena before the lights dropped for Joe Walsh's fantastic opening set, and the anticipation continued to build as the Heartbreaker road crew prepared the stage before Tom and the guys arrived to thunderous